"Goofed-up" images: thought sampling with a schizophrenic woman.

A variant of the time-sampling method, experience sampling, was used to produce a narrative description of the inner experience of a schizophrenic young woman. In general, her inner experience was predominantly visual, and those images were frequently "goofed up", i.e., tilted, obliterated, or inaccurate in detail. The case has methodological significance in that it demonstrates that the descriptive time-sampling method can provide useful information about individuals, and also has significance in our understanding of schizophrenia, in that it exemplifies in detail the everyday distortions of inner experience in schizophrenia.